Cowboy Jim‘s Stories Around the Campfire Jim Panter

Years of youth ministry, camps and sports have taken me to many Emergency Rooms.  Sometimes as a patient and many more times as the leader, coach, pastor in charge.  They are never fun and can be exhausting, challenging and even fearful.  Thank God that He promises to be with us.

Over the years I have had a lot of experience with horses.  On the ranch we had a lot of really good cow ponies that I have told you about in "Horses on the Ranch" .  We also had some that were not so good and created a lot of stories with horses that were slow, ignorant and downright dumb.  Some of these horses were created to help us learn patience, I think.

Over the years we have had many adventures on lakes, rivers and streams.  Sometimes it included some sort of rescue/  Our adventures on Moosehead Lake in Maine were always exciting, challenging and sometimes a bit scary.

Years of youth ministry will give you many stories of things that happen and can lead to visits to the local Emergency Room.  There can be some pretty scary times and some of them, while not fun, gives us some great stores and adventures.  I have often thought that if I wrote a book about my years as a youth pastor and camp director, I would entitle the book, "ER's I Have Known".

You probably know that I really like reading and hearing about hidden gold stores, especially in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado.  Here is another famous one and some personal adventures as well.

Whenever you spend a lot of time in the woods or the outdoors there is a good chance of having close encounters with wild animals.  Sometimes they can be very dangerous and sometimes vastly entertaining.  But either way, there is a lot of excitement during the close encounter moment.